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Longmont police seek hit-and-run driver who caused gas station fire

No injuries in Monday night incident at Sixth and Main

By Tony Kindelspire

Times-Call staff writer

Posted:
06/03/2014 12:14:18 PM MDT

Updated:
06/03/2014 05:59:12 PM MDT

This is all that was left Tuesday morning of a gas pump at the Sav-O-Mat, 600 Main St. Longmont police are searching for the driver of a white Ford pickup that backed into the pump just before 7:30 Monday evening and fled. (Lewis Geyer / Longmont Times-Call)

Police say the driver of this vehicle backed into a gas pump at the Sav-O-Mat, 600 Main St., on Monday evening, causing a fire. The hit-and-run suspect is described as a white male in his 30s or 40s driving a white, 1980s- to 1990s-model Ford pickup with a white camper shell. The vehicle had a temporary tag. (Longmont Police Department / Courtesy photo)

Longmont police would like the public's help in finding a driver who crashed into a gas pump and caused a fire at the Sav-O-Mat gas station, 600 Main St., on Monday evening.

Police say the driver backed into a pump on an island on the west side of the parking lot at 7:27 p.m., causing the pump to catch fire. The driver immediately fled north on Main Street, which is where it was last seen.

One of the two pumps on the island was fully engulfed by flames and destroyed. The Longmont Fire Department responded and put out the fire, and there were no injuries.

The suspect is described as a white male in his 30s or 40s driving a 1980s- to 1990s-model white Ford pickup with a white camper shell. The vehicle had a temporary license tag.

This photo from Monday evening shows a gas pump at the Sav-O-Mat gas station, 600 Main St., fully engulfed in flames. Longmont police are searching for a hit-and-run driver who struck the pump and drove off. (McKenna Eccles / Courtesy photo)

The gas station was open for business as normal on Tuesday morning. A manager inside declined to comment, and a call to the station's parent company, Bradley Petroleum in Centennial, went unreturned.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Longmont police at 303-651-8501.

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